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The News Media and The Law, Spring 2008

 

Publisher Lucy A. Dalglish

Editor Gregg P. Leslie

Managing Editor Jennifer Koons

Contributors Scott Albright, Amy Harder, Alanna Malone, Matthew Pollack and Alison Schmidt

Administration Lois Lloyd, Victor Gaberman, Maria Gowen

 

RCFP Steering Committee

Dan Abrams, MSNBC

Scott Applewhite, The Associated Press

Chip Bok, Akron Beacon Journal

Earl Caldwell, Pacifica Radio

Rebecca Carr, Cox Newspapers

Walter Cronkite, CBS News

Richard S. Dunham, Houston Chronicle

Ashlea Ebeling, Forbes Magazine

Steve Geimann, Bloomberg News

Fred Graham, Court TV

Stephen Henderson, Detroit Free Press

John C. Henry, The Associated Press

Nat Hentoff, The Village Voice

Edward H. Kohn, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Stephen Labaton, The New York Times

Neil Lewis, The New York Times

Tony Mauro, Legal Times

Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times

Wilson F. Minor, Factual Reporting Service

Sandra Peddie, Newsday

Dana Priest, The Washington Post

Dan Rather, HDNet

Cristine Russell, Freelance

Tim Russert, NBC News

Bob Schieffer, CBS News

Gerald F. Seib, The Wall Street Journal

Saundra Torry, USA Today

Vickie Walton-James, Tribune Publishing

Judy Woodruff, PBS/The News Hour

Affiliations appear for purposes of identification.

The Reporters Committee would like to thank The Associated Press for permission to use photos from its files.

 

The News Media and The Law, Spring 2008

Spring 2008
Vol. 32, No. 2

All eyes on China

 

Editorial

 

Defining a journalist

Cover Story

 

All eyes on China

Newsgathering

 

New regulations

 

Pro-Chinese protests target foreign media

 

A veteran's advice for reporters heading to Beijing

Freedom of Information

 

Secrecy and the next administration

 

Candidates back federal shield law

 

Signed, sealed and locked away

 

Where oh where has that e-mail gone?

 

On the electronic beat

 

A New York success story

 

FOIA reforms don't spell victory yet

Reporter's Privilege

 

Forget and Forgive?

 

Three's the charm

 

Comparing the new shields

Prior Restraints

 

Cameras in courts through the years

 

The cameras may be rolling...

 

Wikileaks unplugged, free to flow

 

Interfering with the Internet

 

Post-wikileaks

 

 

From the Hotline

Libel

 

When defamation goes online

 

Noteworthy cases

 

 

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